The Da Vinci Code
Feb. 4th, 2005 10:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloThey say the Da Vinci Code is badly written. That's enough to put me off. Life is too short.
But what really gets me is that people are reacting as if this stuff about The Priory of Sion and Mary Magdalen and Rennes Le Chateau were new and shocking. It isn't. It's all there in the 1982 non-fiction best-seller The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, which is still in print. Also it's all over the Net. What sheltered lives some people must lead!
Also, if Brown had researched properly- instead of just reading The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail- he'd have known that the Priory of Sion has long since been revealed as a hoax. I'll admit I didn't know that myself before last night (when Channel 4 revealed all) but if I'd been proposing to put the Priory at the centre of a novel I'd have made damn sure I found out all I could about it before I went ahead and committed myself.
But what really gets me is that people are reacting as if this stuff about The Priory of Sion and Mary Magdalen and Rennes Le Chateau were new and shocking. It isn't. It's all there in the 1982 non-fiction best-seller The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, which is still in print. Also it's all over the Net. What sheltered lives some people must lead!
Also, if Brown had researched properly- instead of just reading The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail- he'd have known that the Priory of Sion has long since been revealed as a hoax. I'll admit I didn't know that myself before last night (when Channel 4 revealed all) but if I'd been proposing to put the Priory at the centre of a novel I'd have made damn sure I found out all I could about it before I went ahead and committed myself.
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Date: 2005-02-04 06:20 am (UTC)I'm afraid to go back in case I find the magic has gone.
I'm glad you found me. I was looking at your journal last night- and I like your style.:)
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Date: 2005-02-04 06:27 am (UTC)And dammit! King Arthur is not a fairytale! stomps foot :)
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Date: 2005-02-04 06:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-04 06:52 am (UTC)Yeah, Arthur is real- but was he ever at either Tintagel or Glastonbury? The smart money seems to be on Cadbury Castle as his home base.
I've not been there either.
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Date: 2005-02-04 07:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-04 06:28 am (UTC)Glastonbury has a 'place' magick- the geomantic placement makes for some interesting energies there. The people are the icing on the cake. It's definitely a New Agey/Hippie kind of place, but with a lot of warmth, too. That whole area- Glastonbury/Avebury/Silbury etc. had a wonderful 'feel' to it, and I enjoyed exploring it. If there is a Holy Land- that is it. The only other place I have been to with a similar feel is Hot Springs AR, because of its history as a place of peace and healing for the former inhabitants. There's a bit of an angsty overlay to it now, but in a way HS and Glastonbury could be kindred cities.
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Date: 2005-02-04 06:47 am (UTC)For me the magical place at Glastonbury is the Tor. Dion Fortune writes about the air on top being full of dancing sparkles of light (I'm quoting from memory)- and I know just what she means.